Ideas that You Just Can't Get Out of Your Head

1. An EqG faction for Equestria Divided. It wouldn’t be a serious faction for competitive play; rather, it’d be a comically overpowered NPC faction, only available through bonus missions and cheat codes. The idea would be to play up the “humans as aliens” angle by turning them into a sci-fi invasion force. Fluff-wise, they’d be a military research expedition sponsored by an unreformed Sunset Shimmer, draining Equestria’s magic to fuel advanced technology back home (and possibly to prepare the land for colonization). Mechanically they’d work like the armies from Command & Conquer, with tanks, jets, commandos, and superweapons, plus “Equestrian hybrids” (ponied-up infantry) and “harmonic weaponry” (powered by the forgotten magic of friendship).
    
2. An “authentic” MLP RTS, by which I mean one that could pass as a licensed product. Instead of adapting the setting to fit a traditional RTS model, it’d be about adapting RTS mechanics to fit the Equestria of canon. Since there’s no killing in Equestria, there’d be a much stronger emphasis on economics, diplomacy, and subterfuge. Since most of the fighting in Equestria is done by the militia, you’d have to manage your units’ morale and loyalty instead of taking their obedience for granted. And since MLP is a character-driven toyline at heart, you’d be dealing with a roster of unique individuals rather than fungible classes of units. In that regard it would be much like a MOBA, except with one person controlling the entire team.
    
   If you’d like, I can dredge up that old thread to give a more complete write-up of either of these ideas.

1. In Blizzard RTSes, it seems like there’s always some sort of super-threatening enemy army in the campaign that all the (reasonably) good guys have to set aside their differences to fight. Even as someone who’s not really a fan of humans in Equestria being bastards, I feel like the ED setting would be great for that sorta stuff because most of the pony population are bastards themselves. Oooh! And that could be a sort of enemy faction in a cooperative PvE mode: you and your allies have to desperately hold out and use whatever tactics you can to halt a human expedition.
    
2. That reminds me of how I’d be interested in seeing a comedic/fun/“lighter & softer” RTS using a different setting than standard warfare as a backdrop. For example, Pinkie Pie having to make her own “living dishes” to fight against rebellious ingredients in the Cake’s kitchen. Or Fluttershy commanding armies of animals to help subdue enraged animals that need medical attention. Really, a lot of different MLP scenarios could be adapted into an RTS without changing the tone of the show. I’d love to see what you’ve came up with, though.

Or King Sombra as Emperor Gulcasa.